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L'aigle Foudroyé box art
2001 Ranked #17,857

L'aigle Foudroyé

Maneuver forces across tactical or historical battle maps.

Wargames Wargame Post-Napoleonic Hexagon Grid Movement Points

Players

2

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

2.13/5

Rating

6.79

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.2/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

L'Aigle Foudroyé (The Struck Eagle) covers the first weeks of the campaign in France in 1870 up until the surrender of Sedan, during which time the French Imperial army was defeated by the Prussian forces assisted by some German contingents.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Movement Points

Spend a movement allowance across spaces with different costs.
Hexagon Grid

Use a hexagonal map where each space connects evenly in six directions.
Read the full game description

L'Aigle Foudroyé (The Struck Eagle) covers the first weeks of the campaign in France in 1870 up until the surrender of Sedan, during which time the French Imperial army was defeated by the Prussian forces assisted by some German contingents. Each game turn represents five days of real time, for a total of seven game turns. As with any VV game, the counters are unmounted.

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Type

1
Wargames

Category

2
Post-Napoleonic Wargame

Mechanism

2
Hexagon Grid Movement Points

Family

6
Components: DTP (Desktop Publishing) Country: France Country: Prussia History: Franco-Prussian War Magazine: Vae Victis Players: Two-Player Only Games

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Game and edition data

All specifications (4)

Play and group

Players
2
Best with
1–2
Age
12+
Complexity
2.1/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
François-Stanislas Thomas

Artists

3
Didier Bourgeois Christophe Camilotte Giuseppe Rava

Publishers

1
Vae Victis

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